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• Sheer lunacy

  As I sat with family and friends around a fire in my backyard on Wednesday night, the 20th, we watched the total lunar eclipse and cooked 'dogs' and s'mores...and laughed, and watched the moon, howling just a tad.. It was a delightful experience here Read More... Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 1:45 AM by Beth Patterson | 0 Comments Filed under: community, fire, language, elementals

• Shards of light

  After Apple Picking by Robert Frost My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still. And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking Read More... Posted Saturday, December 08, 2007 5:47 AM by Beth Patterson | 0 Comments Filed under: community, fire, ancestry, amazement, site fidelity, Hanukkah, light

• If you build it, they will come!

  As members of the Central Oregon Community Fire Circle sat around the fire in my backyard last night and shared sweetness, pain, laughter and large doses of love, I was thinking about the meaning of 'church'. A couple of the members of the community, Read More... Posted Sunday, September 23, 2007 6:45 AM by Beth Patterson | 2 Comments Filed under: community, connections, fire, blooming where we're planted, gratitude

• Keeping the fire burning

  Note from the May 27-28 All Night Fire Circle The Central Oregon Fire Circle Community had an all-night fire circle on May 27-28 (Memorial Day weekend). We focused our circle on the topic of ‘ancestors’, and had a lovely dialogue about our physical, animal Read More... Posted Friday, June 01, 2007 2:49 AM by Beth Patterson | 0 Comments Filed under: ancestors, community, fire